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The vast majority of people who will be impacted by trans bans in sports will be little girls with short hair or arms that are "too muscular."
It will also mean that when a woman is good at her sport the disgusting grumbling and whispering about "may she is he" gets taken more seriously.
This happened with Paula Radcliffe for running marathons too fast. If it helps you to think of a white cis woman being the victim of this.
Of course little black girls will take the brunt of this. As ever.
@inthehands while ai is causing new problems here I think this is also part of how we teach people how expertise and the social value of "smartness" works.
Sure people often need to rely on the expertise of others, but we should emphasize that it's an exercise in community and trust.... and usually we don't, schools present it as an exercise in authority... so yeah people go looking for something that produces authority for them.
Edit: wrote some more about this: https://bayes.club/@wronglang/116307615948005128
I contribute to extremely applied research on mundane but politically spicy topics such as health and inequity. I have a degree in chemistry and a PhD in evolutionary biology that gave me enough time wrestling with the gnarlier parts of statistical algorithms to be an expert on most* of applied statistics. I try to respect that work when posting. The way expertise is treated on social media and in daily life is broken, and it's hurting all of us. #Introduction
A thing being repeated across businesses worldwide, including at Microsoft, is C level execs struggling to know why most staff aren’t using Copilot for M365, despite how much it costs.
Because most staff don’t spend all day in Teams meetings reading out PowerPoint slides to people who pretend to care. They have actual jobs. Doing work. Which they know how to do. Because it is their job.
There's this myth that automated spam detection is hard because spammers are all very clever masters of disguise.
No. Spammers are stupid as a shoe. They have dog shit for brains.
Automated spam detection is hard because the line between spam and "legitimate" marketing activity is a fiction.
Alas…
“Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80
A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/tracy-kidder-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116256836407243421
Sometimes even The Economist can correctly assess the situation.
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